Calm down, dear! Where did grumpymort say Roy should come back? He merely said that the man deserves a proper goodbye. How can any Palace fan find issue with that?

Reading through his fat-fingers typing, he also speculates what OG would have done with the painfully thin, injury-ravaged squad that Roy was trying to manage, which surely is a fair point and we'll never know the answer. Incidentally and with obvious hindsight, RH got us to within 3 points of PL survival.

Palace since 19 August 1972. Palace 1 (Tony Taylor) Liverpool 1 (Emlyn Hughes)

Reading player interviews it is clear they are happier now with everything across the board. Also having Glasner gives us a chance to keep our best players.

Roy definitely deserves a good send off, he did a lot for this club over the years. Perhaps next season something can be arranged for one of the games. Glasner seems a very respectful man and spoke well of Roy on occasions, so to have the players, so seems it would suit the whole club. If Roy doesn’t want the attention then it will be great to see him as a special guest in the stands

I'd rather watch a Joel Ward Palace team managed by Roy Vs a Steve Coppell invitation team. Sir Steve would (I'm sure) happily share the applause with Roy.

Everyone wins.

Spot on!!

I agree there.

Alongside Jacey, I think Plaistow Eagle's post was 'spot on' too.

It feels as though Glasner may as well have arrived in a spaceship to take over from Roy, such is the distance between the approaches.

That said, keeping a club like ours in the top flight is no easy task. Roy achieved that for us and if we are/are ever going on to bigger and better things, he would have to be identified as delivering the platform on which that success was built.

He should be remembered and always welcomed back fondly. No, I do not desire his return in any management capacity but with Roy as a fan and servant of the club, that door should always be open and the invite extended to him.

Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!

Roy and Ray do indeed fully deserve a 'proper Palace send off'
This is not to say that the board weren't heading rapidly towards a 'management situation' that would have required resolving one way or another.
However as Roy's illness seemed to logically solve that problem and pave the way for Oliver Glasner.
I hope when Joel Ward finishes playing at Palace he will be awarded a testimonial match and maybe Roy & Ray will be invited back to manage one of the teams ( Ray in shorts of course!), Maybe Sir Steve the other!
That I think would be a very fitting occasion to give them a 'job' as well as a 'Palace send off'